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My interest is to keep doing development, not consultancy. But I have to offer a permanent service if I want new clients to contact me both at times I'm busy an
by hhm 18y ago
My interest is to keep doing development, not consultancy. But I have to offer a permanent service if I want new clients to contact me both at times I'm busy and when I'm not. I'm trying consultancy as that kind of service, and while I'm not completely sure yet, I think it works for now. 90% of the time I keep developing software for one or other project (but, as I don't offer that as a permanent service, I can choose which projects to work in, and also I can just tell clients "I can't do development now" when I'm just busy with some other project); but I'm always free for consultancy.
- davidw 18y agoSounds like a good setup to me, actually, because you can get paid for something with a lot of people, and cherry pick what to work on in terms of development, which is indeed much more time consuming. Maybe not quite as good as having residual income from an actual product, but pretty good just the same.
- hhm 18y agoOf course, having residual income from an actual product would be better... I started my business career with a great product sales failure and since then I stayed at (quite successful) high cost services, even in a product-oriented industry like games :) Some months ago I was starting some product development again but a new big contract came and I just couldn't refuse. Maybe some day I'll go the product way. Thank you for your interesting comments.